Reading Poetry

Today Mystery Religion excaped
chains of colonial control

"And he was valdictorian
of his G.E.D. class,"
Sure sign of
smartness

leaving behind paperwork at
a level 2 joint
Promised people he’d part when
lodged in 4 cube.

Tonight Mystery Religion
vanished vaguely valiently.

Tues. 5 May 98
Brooklyn, CT

I'll bet that just took 5 years off my life--but GODDAMM if it wasn't worth every second